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Emily Jane Brontë
The author of Wuthering Heights was Emily Jane Brontë, the middle of the world-famous Brontë sisters (pronounced BRON-tee, not bron-TAY, see Pronunciations).
Emily bronte biography timeline with pictures
An isolated, painfully shy woman, she produced one of the most distinctive novels in literature and some of the greatest poetry. Her character and life are as singular as her book.
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painted by her brother
Branwell in 1834
Emily had an unusual character, extremely unsocial and reserved, with few friends outside her family.
She preferred the company of animals to people and rarely travelled, forever yearning for the freedom of Haworth and the moors. She had a will of iron – a well known story about her is that she was bitten by a (possibly) rabid dog which resulted in her walking calmly into the kitchen and cauterising the wound herself with a hot iron.1
She had unconventional religious beliefs, rarely attending church services and, unlike the